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Afghan police men take up positions as Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Dozens of employees and other people who had been inside the Independent Election Commission compound took cover in the basement, and no casualties were reported. But two warehouses were hit and set on fire, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

FILE - In this undated file image is "Rosie the Riveter" dressed in overalls and bandanna, who was introduced as a symbol of patriotic women joining the work force during World War II. The Ypsilanti, Mich., factory where the real Rosie worked helping build World War II-era bombers is scheduled to be knocked down. A group trying to save the factory from demolition announced Friday, March 28, 2014, it has raised $6.5 million, but it needs $8 million and has until May 1 to make that happen. (AP Photo/File)

Vice President Joe Biden gives a joint statement with Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite and Latvia's President Andris Berzins at the Presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Lithuania to reassure Baltic leaders that the U.S. is committed to defending its NATO allies in the face of Russia's intervention in Crimea. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)